The trillion represents the long numerical scale that is most used in the countries of Europe. The trillion equals one million million. In the Spanish language, the concept of billion differs from that defined by the English language, in the sense that one billion represents one billion (1,000,000,000), which in some cases tends to cause confusion in the translation.
The name "billion" was adopted by a stream of mathematicians in the 17th century to refer to one billion, a number that speakers of other languages call billions.
What for the Spanish language represents a trillion, for the English language is a trillion; noting that there is a great difference between one concept and another since it is not the same one billion (1,000,000,000) and one million million (1,000,000,000,000).
Due to what has been explained, it is common for mistakes to be made when interpreting articles from the English language into other languages. Even the British themselves have come to ignore, if in an old writing in English billion is referring to "one billion" or "a million million", this is because both concepts were used at the same time, until not long ago.
A billionaire is a person who has a wealth of billions of euros, dollars, etc., are few people who have had the fortune, some of the few who have come to accumulate this wealth has been Bill Gates, founder of the well - known computer company Microsoft Corporation. Similarly, according to the Guinness book, the oil magnate John Rockefeller had assets in the order of 0.66 billion.
